Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Michael
D. Montalbano in January, 2013. Description is in English.

Harry Sebee Linfield (1889-1978), rabbi and statistician, collected statistics of Jewish life in America
for the Bureau of Jewish Social Research and the United States Bureau of the Census. The majority of the collection contains his research data but also includes correspondence and other
personal papers.

Harry Sebee Linfield (1889-1978), rabbi and statistician, from 1921 served as the Director of Information and Statistics of the Bureau of Jewish Social Research,
originally a division of the American Jewish Committee, followed by the Synagogue Council of America and the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
He also served as ‘special agent’ for Jewish data for the United States Bureau of the Census in the Decennial Censuses of Religious Bodies in 1926, 1936 and 1946.
His Jewish Statistical Bureau conducted other research on Jews in America and published numerous reports and other publications on their findings, specifically the
Statistics of Jews.

This collection documents the life and work of Harry S. Linfield as a statistician of Jewish life in America and includes personal and professional correspondence, research data and subject files,
and a number of publications and reports.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society,
except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

Use Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Executive Director of
the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their
fragility. For more information, contact: American Jewish Historical Society,
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011
email: reference@ajhs.org

Much of the published work of Harry S. Linfield can be found in the partners' collections here at the Center for Jewish History.
Additional material related to Harry S. Linfield, the Jewish Statistical Bureau, the Bureau of Jewish Social Research, and the Statistical Bureau of the Synagogue Council of America can
be found in the collections of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the American Jewish Archives. Specific collections at the American Jewish Archives are the papers of:
Solomon Goldman, Abraham Jehiel Feldman, and Boris David Bogen.

Arrangement:

This material is arranged by folder title.

Scope and Content:

This series includes records that document the academic and personal life of Harry S. Linfield from his education at Dropsie College, the Hebrew Union College, and the University of Chicago.
The series also includes some of the personal papers of Sadie Linfield.

Arrangement:

This series is arranged alphabetically by publication agency and then by publication title and date.

Scope and Content:

This series documents the work of Linfield that was published through the various organizations and agencies for which he worked. Included in this series are the numerous statistical
reports compiled by Linfield from the Jewish Statistical Bureau Inc., along with his dissertation from the University of Chicago.

Box

Folder

Title

Date

1

10

American Jewish Committee - The Jews in the United States, 1927: A Study of their Number and Distribution

1929

1

11

American Jewish Committee - Statistical Department Report

1931

1

12

Bureau of Jewish Social Research - Newsletter - Summary of Events of Jewish Interest

1926-1927

1

13

Bureau of Jewish Social Research - Summary of Events of Jewish Interest - Volume II

1922-1923 June 1 - May 31

1

14

Bureau of Jewish Social Research - Summary of Events of Jewish Interest - Volume III

1923-1924 June 1 - May 31

Box

Folder

Title

Date

2

1

Bureau of Jewish Social Research - Summary of Events of Jewish Interest - Volume IV

1924-1925 June 1 - May 31

2

2

Dissertation - The Relation of Jewish to Babylonian Law

1919

2

3

Jewish Statistical Bureau - Annual Report

1944

2

4

Jewish Statistical Bureau - A Census of Jews - Draft

1950

2

5

Jewish Statistical Bureau - Communal Jewish Directory of the United States and Canada

Jewish Statistical Bureau - United States Census of Religious Groups and Census of Jewish Group: Interim Report to Delegates of Council for Statistics of Jews and National Committee of Jewish Statistical Bureau